Care-Paths: Searching the way to implement pathways

Clinical Pathways are structured, multidisplinary plans of care designed to support the implementation of clinical guidelines and protocols. The goal of care-paths project (IST-1-507017) is to set up an intelligent operational environment for making clinical governance effective, to support health professionals, clinicians and care operators, in continually improving the quality of services and safeguarding high standards of care. To enable such improvements, CARE-PATHS leans upon the concept of clinical pathways. In order to demonstrate the completion of the objectives, the project is conducting one pilot phase in two different scenarios: La Azienda ospedaliera di Parma and the Hospital universitario la Fe de Valencia. Both scenarios deals with the implementations of two clinical pathways, the urgency procedure of an Acute myocardial infarction and the cardiac insufficiency in the context of a Home Hospitalization Unit respectively. This paper explain the main artifacts of the project produced until now: the tools and the IT system that support the execution of pathways.